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Thursday, 22 January 2015

Great trochanter of the Femur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvis

At birth the whole of the hip joint (the acetabulum area and the top of the femur) is still made of cartilage (but there may be a small piece of bone in the great trochanter of the femur); this makes it difficult to detect congenital hip dislocation by X-raying.

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